Django Unchained

Not a bad movie to start this blog, uh? I usually like Tarantino, so I thought let's see this one. I bet I'll like it. And you know what? I liked it. It was better than I thought.
The point of this blog is for me to talk about it so that when one day I'll have forgotten all about it I may remember something after reading this, so spoilers cannot be avoided, so be warned!
A German bounty-hunter (Christoph Waltz) frees Django (Jamie Foxx), a slave, because he needs him. Django knows the faces of three criminals, and he doesn't.
So, you may think the film will be their search for those 3 criminals, but that part is over in no time, and you think What now? Then Django starts working as a bounty-hunter with his new friend, and here I thought, oh now he'll spend all winter learning the job, learning how to shoot, but no, this part also was over in no time. No need to learn anything, despite the fact that he was a slave, that he can barely read with difficulty, he can already shoot like.. well I'd say even better than Tex Willer, for those who know him (comic book). Again, what now? The film is 2hours and 38 minutes long! Still a long way to go! But it's at this point that the big story starts, because now Django wants to free his wife, and since they're now partners but also friends, they're going to do it together. Of course. Now the wife is legally the property of a real (insert insult here), but the most hideous character of all is his servant Steven (Samuel L. Jackson), a black slave who after many years has reached the highest position a slave can reach, and he is now a slaver himself because he likes to see those poor men and women in their place. I mean, young Calvin (Leonardo Di Caprio) is the son of a wealthy southern family and frankly has never known anything different, although this is not an excuse because he is someone you hate instantly, but Steven is even worse. Anyway, this is not exactly the final showdown, because first they meet, then Kingschultz proposes to buy a slave fighter for a lot of money, in this way they are introduced in the house, to meet the family and the other servants. Kingschultz is very close to obtaining that servant Brumhilda would be given to him as a bonus, because she speaks German, when Steven ruins everything guessing the real interest of Django and Kingschultz and revealing it to his master. Calvin shows again how bad he is, but the deal still goes on and everything could be arranged, but for one point. Calvin insists, badly, that they shake hands to seal the deal, but this is too much, Kingschultz despises him too much to accept that, he just can't, his being is repulsed at the idea, until he can't bear with it anymore and shoots Calvin dead in his own house. Of course he gets killed and Django captured and sent away as a slave again, but now he's changed and too close to his wife to give up. He tricks the three man that are taking him away (one of them is played by Tarantino himself) and comes back to kill them all ( he lets the slave go free, kills everybody else, and Steven) and burns down the house, and goes away with his wife.

Now, this Kingschultz character is immediately adorable and funny. He has his personal code of honor, he goes around killing men that are wanted by the law of the US, dead or alive and he has already chosen that dead is easier. From the first moment he spoke with respect to Django, like speaking to a fellow man and not to a slave. He despises slavery entirely. He is sweet and romantic in his own way and his heart's full of nostalgia when he hears that Django's wife is called Brumhilda and she even speaks German! He tells Django a story he says it's very famous where he comes from: Brumhilda's father, angry with her, locks her at the top of a dangerous mountain, guarded by a dragon, or something like that, until someone rescues her. Sigfried is not afraid and he is able to overcome all the obstacles that keep him away from her because "Brumhilda's worth it". I loved this bit. This is exactly what Django will have to do, climb the mountain, slain the dragon, overcome every obstacle because his Brumhilda's worth it :-) The character played by Di Caprio is a real so-rich-I-can-do-what-I-want-Outside/so-bastard-what-I-like-is-to-hurt-kill-and-generally-use-people-like-trash-Inside. Leonardo Di Caprio is always good, and here it is proved by the fact that one wants to smash that pretty little head of his after two minutes of knowing him.
If you remember that this is a Tarantino movie the end will not surprise you/ disappoint you, because you won't be bothered by little details like 'he is at her right when he shoots her and yet she falls right back': it's a cool scene and that's totally Tarantino.
Also, when you see his face remember what's the life-expectancy of all his characters. This way what happens next won't be neither a surprise nor a disappointment, because you're going to get all the Tarantino-style you were expecting!
Little side note: there's also a scene where Django meets the 'original Django' Franco Nero who says "I know" when Django points out that the D is mute. :-D

I liked everyone in this film. Christoph Waltz and Jamie Foxx were great, just absolutely great. Leonardo Di Caprio e Samuel L. Jackson... I suppose the fact that you can' t wait to see the first die and the second suffer (and die) means they're playing well their roles, doesn't it? I think it does.